Intel U7500 and U2500.

I hear this processor will come out around mid 2007, gonna be a 1.06 ghz ULV Merom. Should we see notebooks like the Lifebook P and Vaio T series have it? What battery life should we expect. According to Wikipedia once, I think they said we should expect battery life in the tens of hours.

And what about the Yonah ULV U2500? Was it 1.06 or I think 1.2 ghz right? I think I've only seen this in a Dell 12.1" notebook, the D420 or something like that. Should we expect this chip in the Lifebook P and Vaio T series?

Sorry, I'm such a huge fan of 10.6" and 11.1" notebooks.
I remember the Vaio T and Lifebook P7010 coming out late 2004 and the Vaio TX and P7120 coming out late 2005. So should we expect new refreshes of these notebooks later this year with the U2500 and later in 2007 with the U7500? Thanks again for any info.

 

I think that the Yonah U2500 is actually a better solution for ultraportables than the U7500 - according to what I have seen so far, the U7500 will use more power all around. I suppose this could be counteracted by more agressive power management, but it's hard to predict that right now.

 

Where did you hear this Chaz? I had heard that the ULV Meroms would be very power efficient. And I think the battery life in a Dell D420 or something like that with the U2500 had unremarkable battery life, like around 4-5 hours.

 

As far as I know the following systems already have an U2500 option or will get it for sure:

Samsung Q40 (coming up)
Fujitsu / Fujitsu-Siemens Lifiebook Q2010
HP nc2400
Dell Latitude D420
Sony Vaio TX4 (at least the successor of the current TX3 however they will call it)

 

I wrote about it here, second story:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3117

 

Will these cpus we socked so you can add them to any laptop.
Thanks

 

Unlikely, ULV's have traditionally been BGA's & hence will mostly be soldered onto the system boards.

 

Soldering the CPUs is probably also to avoid the extra height resulting from using a socket. The Intel CPU data sheets do not indicate which CPUs come in what packaging so it is possible that the ULV CPUs could come in both package types. The BIOS would also need to support the CPU.

Personally, I would be more interested in the low voltage CPUs, such as the L7400, which have significantly reduced current drain compared to the normal CPUs.

John

 

The reason I am asking this. So you could simply buy one of these cpus and put them in any laptop.
Thanks

 

Don't forget the Asus U1F, one of the newer 11.1" ultraportable arrivals with the LED backlit screen

 

No, there's no way you can do that unfortunately.